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Brown Spider Monkey (USNM 281801)

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New World monkeys are primates and are more closely related to humans, apes and Old World monkeys than any other living nonhuman primate group. The Smithsonian Institution’s Division of Mammals (http://vertebrates.si.edu/mammals/) houses many New World monkeys in its scientific collections.

This specimen, USNM 281801 (http://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/mammals/?irn=7297311), is a female brown spider monkey (Ateles hybridus) from Colombia. This individual was collected by Hershkovitz in 1943 near El Orinoco, Rio Cesar. This specimen measured a total length of 1,205 mm, a tail length of 721 mm, a hind tarsus length of 180 mm, and an ear notch length of 36 mm.

This is a CT scan of the mandible of USNM 281801. These three-dimensional scans are made publicly available through the generous support of the Smithsonian 2.0 Fund, provided from the annual gifts of the Smithsonian National Board to the Secretary to use at his discretion (http://smithsonian20.si.edu/fund.html), and the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund.

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